Chris’s Blog

After writing to the news website, TVNZ.co.nz about the obvious misrepresentation of the Playstation 3 console, I assumed it would only be a little while until they fixed the error of their ways. More than three months later, the problem still exists. Every time there is a Playstation Three related article they use the following image – nothing like the actual Playstation three unit at all.

While I frequently visit tvnz.co.nz to keep up with the news, I’m becoming increasingly disappointed in the quality of their reporting. Along with vague headliners (“Technology helps doctors” Duh!, “Person burned in house fire” WOW that’s informative!, ), spelling mistakes and poorly written articles, tvnz.co.nz never fails to disappoint me in some way during my near daily visits.

Which leads me to believe that they either have newbs writing all their online articles, or they have no quality control, or any system of checking an article before its posted online.

I understand that some of these articles are taken from various sources (Reuters etc) but that just makes things even worse – not only are you not writing up the article yourselves, but you are failing to check the consistency/validity/quality of the referenced article.

TVNZ PS3 / Actual PS3

Well, it logged in and displayed the relevant windows, but didn’t seem to get any further than that. Contacts wouldn’t display either. Ah well, might work after a few firmware revisions.

Working fine, took a couple minutes to pair up and all was well. One big problem though, I haven’t figured how to connect the device to the PS3 after its been turned off and on again. Only way to use after restarting is to re-pair the device. Annoying!

Well, not really. Even after following all the links to the supposed yellow dog Linux dist for the PS3 I didn’t really find much. I then assumed that the latest version would install, but it didn’t. So just gonna have to wait until version five comes out.

I did format the hard drive again though to set up a 10gb partition for Linux when its ready. This way I wont need to back up all my stuff by the time it comes out.

I pulled out the 20gb (Seagate) and stuck in one of my older SATA laptop hard drives. Booted, formatted, and working fine. I also noticed that the drive I yanked from the PS3 is amazingly quiet, even while transferring files, there was no noticeable change in sound from the drive. Also, the PS3 Is recognizing my USB card reader no problems.

It also works with my Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 but Resistance doesn’t seem to support any other controllers. Dang.

Finally, after a 16 or so hour wait I got what i was waiting for. Not gonna put up any unboxing photos cause theres already plenty on the net, but I haven’t even unboxed it yet, might update this in a few hours after I’ve had some fun!